Maeve Binchy was born and educated in Dublin. She is the bestselling author of The Return Journey, Evening Class, This Year It Will Be Different, and The Glass Lakes. She has written two plays and a teleplay that won three awards at the Prague Film Festival. She has been writing for The Irish Times since 1969 and lives with her husband, writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell, in Dublin.
"A grand storyteller in the finest Irish tradition....She writes from the heart"—Plain Dealer, Cleveland
Binchy's best-selling tales of provincial Irish life appeal to fans of popular and serious fiction alike. In her latest effort, family secrets threaten to consume a young woman.
YA‘With the popularity of the film version of Binchy's Circle of Friends, this story, which traces the developments in the lives of two young friends in a small Irish town in the '50s, is likely to have wide appeal. The heroine, Kit, is shown to be at odds with her best friend, Clio, from the first scene. The differences in their values and emotions persist and separate them as the years pass. The life of Kit's beautiful mother unfolds in a concurrent plot line. Helen is generally believed to have died in a tragic drowning. She has, however, gone off with a lover. The story of her business successes and romantic complexities parallels her daughter's years of maturing, providing Kit and readers with ironic insights as she and a very few of the townspeople become aware of the woman's new life. A big, easy, comfortable read.‘Frances Reiher, King's Park Library, Burke, VA
"A grand storyteller in the finest Irish tradition....She writes from the heart"-Plain Dealer, Cleveland
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